Chhattisgarh: ‘UMMID’ reunites missing people with families again

Source:-https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com

RAIPUR: The state’s legal body has emerged as a boon for the missing persons. It has launched a special campaign UMMID to help reunite such people with their families.
In the latest, the Chhattisgarh state legal services authority has helped two more mentally challenged missing persons to reunite with their families after successful treatment at State Mental Hospital Sendri, Bilaspur.
While others were busy holding awareness programmes on the occasion of World Mental Health Day celebrated last week, CGSLSA continued its efforts to reunite missing souls who have lost all their hopes to meet their families again.
CGLSLSA member secretary Siddharth Agrawal said that as a part of campaign “UMMID”, Sudhir Sonkar hailing from Rajapur in Chitrakoot district of Uttar Pradesh, who was missing from his home for about last five years was reunited with his family members after confirmation of his whereabouts from his father Nande Lal Sonkar. Sonkar was admitted in State Mental Hospital Sendri, Bilaspur in March last year and was staying at a half way home in Bilaspur since October last year after his complete treatment. Sonkar only remembered his village Rajapur and after the best efforts, the family was contacted and Sonkar was sent back to his home on the occasion of World Mental Health Day 2020 following the successful counseling sessions.

In the same sequence, another mentally ill patient Namay Shelkar hailing from Somwarkheda village in Amravati district of Maharashtra, who went missing from her home for the last three years, was sent back to her home on Tuesday after her full recovery. She was admitted in the mental hospital by police in December 2018 and was staying at a half way home in Bilaspur since June last year after her complete treatment. When contacted, her brother Mansharam told that she was undergoing treatment for her mental illness earlier too, however, she was not getting recovered due to incomplete treatment and started wandering again after which she went missing, he said.
Meanwhile, as per the instructions of CGSLSA patron-in-chief and CG high court chief Justice P R Ramachandra Menon and CGSLSA executive chairman Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra continuous work under UMMID is being carried out and more than 20 such patients have been reunited with their families so far.